Abundant Venture Innovation Accelerator, LLC also known as AVIA (www.aviahealthinnovation.com) is a venture partnership that accelerates the successful implementation of early-stage, health care provider-focused technology products and services. AVIA has a two part mission. First, it supports providers in defining and executing on their innovation agenda in order to accelerate cost reduction, improve quality and increase patient access. Second, AVIA identifies, sources, and supports innovative companies in delivering their products and services to its members.

Binary Fountain (www.binaryfountain.com/) is a leading provider of patient feedback management solutions designed specifically for healthcare in a single cloud-based platform. Its patient experience platform is built on a proprietary healthcare-centric Natural Language Processing (NLP) engine that mines patient feedback from surveys, online ratings and review sites, social media, and other data sources to equip its customers with the actionable insights needed to improve patient satisfaction and loyalty, increase engagement and drive sustainable bottom-line results.

Gauss Surgical (www.gausssurgical.com) is a medical technology company based in Los Altos, California. Founded in 2011, it develops FDA-grade mobile applications for patient monitoring, with a focus on computer vision and machine learning applications. Gauss’s flagship product, Triton is the world’s only real-time monitor for surgical blood loss and has four FDA clearances along with approval for CE Mark.

InDemand Interpreting (www.indemandinterpreting.com) is an industry-leading provider of video remote interpretation (“VRI”) services to the health provider market. As the population of limited English proficient (“LEP”) patients increases, the need for timely, high-quality interpretation services is experienced acutely.

Intelligent Retinal Imaging Systems (www.retinalscreenings.com/) is the industry leader in early detection systems for diabetic eye disease. The company's IRIS solution is an end-to-end FDA-cleared, telemedicine system that has improved quality, expanded access and reduced costs for diabetic retinopathy exams across the U.S. IRIS was founded in 2011 by nationally recognized retina surgeon Dr. Sunil Gupta, with a vision to end preventable blindness through the development and deployment of retinal diagnostic services in the primary care setting. The IRIS team of physicians, technicians and best practice client success experts partner with forward-thinking providers and payers to enhance patient outcomes by closing care gaps in healthcare systems. IRIS is the recipient of the 2017 Microsoft Innovation Award and the 2016 Frost & Sullivan New Product Innovation Award in Diabetic Retinopathy.

Lyra Health (www.lyrahealth.com) is a company with a singular focus: transforming mental health care. Each year, approximately 50 million Americans suffer from a diagnosable mental health condition, such as depression or anxiety, or from substance abuse, yet only one in seven receives appropriate care. Through a combination of innovative technology and a human touch, Lyra Health will screen patients who need help, match patients with the right evidence-based care and rigorously assess treatment outcomes to ensure that patients are improving. Led by former executives and clinicians from Facebook, Stanford and LinkedIn, Lyra Health is uniquely positioned to transform mental health in a way that helps millions of Americans — and lowers overall health care costs for the organizations and plans that pay for their care.

N-of-One ( www.n-of-one.com) is the leader in identifying patient-specific therapeutic options for precision medicine in oncology by leveraging its proprietary knowledgebase and its team of oncologists and Ph.D. scientists to integrate genomic data from multiple tests. Using N-of-One solutions can standardize and accelerate genomic clinical interpretation and molecular decision support while saving time and money. N-of-One’s solutions have provided therapeutic options, including clinical trials, for tens of thousands of patient cases across hundreds of cancer types. N-of-One partners with leading hospital systems, cancer centers, and commercial labs around the world.

Omada Health (www.omadahealth.com) is a digital behavioral medicine company that inspires people to change the habits that put them most at risk for serious but largely preventable chronic conditions like heart disease and type 2 diabetes. The company brings world-class behavioral medicine to anyone with an Internet connection, using insights about social networking, gaming, and behavioral science to motivate changes in lifestyle. Backed by investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Norwest Venture Partners, Omada was named one of Fast Company’s 50 Most Innovative Companies of 2015. Omada has recently expanded Prevent curriculum to cover those at risk for diabetes, heart disease, and other obesity-related chronic conditions. Omada delivers Prevent through enterprise clients, including employers Lowe’s, Iron Mountain, and Costco as well as health insurers like Humana and Kaiser Permanente.

Press Ganey (www.pressganey.com) is a leading provider of patient experience measurement, performance analytics and strategic advisory solutions for health care organizations across the continuum of care. Press Ganey is recognized as a pioneer and thought leader in patient experience measurement and performance improvement solutions. The company’s mission is to help health care organizations reduce patient suffering and enhance caregiver resilience to improve the safety, quality and experience of care.

Sqord (www.sqord.com) is redefining active play for today’s connected generation of kids and families. Its interactive hardware-software platform, provides kids with a fun and easy way to track and share all of their activity throughout the day. Kids can then use that activity to compete with friends, earn points, achieve big wins, find new activities to do, and collect limitless virtual rewards – just for getting up and playing. Sqord has gotten tens of thousands of kids and families moving through schools, youth organizations and direct sales across the country. The company has offices in downtown Seattle, Wash. and Durham, N.C.Providence Ventures led seed round financing December 2014.

Wildflower Health (www.wildflowerhealth.com) has developed a mobile-based enterprise software platform which focused on making intelligent connections between consumers and their healthcare. Wildflower simplifies healthcare every day through helping families manage the health needs of moms, dads, kids and aging parents on one shared mobile application. Wildflower’s platform improves clinical outcomes and operational efficiency, while increasing engagement, satisfaction and loyalty for its clients.

Xealth (http://www.xealth.io) was founded as an executive-in-residence (EIR) initiative within the Strategy and Innovation division of Providence Health & Services. Xealth provides a technology platform that enables physicians to prescribe digital information, services, and applications to patients. Xealth’s core technology consists of an EMR-integrated prescribing platform that fits seamlessly into a provider’s workflow, a consumer-friendly user interface for patients to access and utilize the prescribed applications, and analytics to assess consumers’ use of the assigned applications.